More clarity about definitions and the outcomes being sought from the Government's policy on 'greater transparency' is needed, says Jessica Crowe.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants, electric light the most efficient policeman,' Judge Louis D Brandeis, 1913 'There are two things in the world you never want to let people see how you make 'em – laws and sausages' Leo McGarry in TV's West Wing episode, Five Votes Down, 1999 .